Any Quote by Katherine Paterson

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

— Ornette Coleman

“By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.”

— Colson Whitehead

Go ahead and write it, your words can be the pixie dust powerful enough to transform human spirits into stars, because I know there…

— Michael Mbuko

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

— Thomas S. Monson

“Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how…

— Nina Sankovitch

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

— Roy Bedichek

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

— Cyril Connolly

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about…

— Nina Sankovitch

Right after any kind of procedure you want to be surrounded by love and you need good healing vibes and positive energy around you.

— Camille Grammer

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

— Alveda King

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers